May 2, 2026
Description
I created this modular pill bottle holder in fusion 360 in order to create a lazy susan style pill bottle holder to keep prescriptions one place. The bottles shown in the images are my old prescription bottles with the labels taken off (one of which I use to store broken sewing machine needles.)
The dowels are measured using the dummy spool model.
How it works is that the dowels are first inserted into the bottom of the holders and then the holders are put in through the top of the spool.
Holder sizes.
For these I went around 4 mm bigger than the bottle I used to measure and roughly half the height.
Height is to keep the bottles from tipping out.
Each piece also has 6 more millimeters on the bottom that I subtracted to get the interior height.
90 day pill bottle holder: inside diameter of 52 mm and a height of 64 mm.
Small pill bottle holder: inside diameter of 37 mm and a height of 34 mm.
Short large bottle holder: inside diameter of 54 mm and a height of 44 mm
New opaque botttle: inside diameter of 42 mm and a height of 24 mm.
Over the counter bottle: inside diameter of 68 mm and a height of 52 mm. (I used an ibuprofen bottle for this one to provide more range just in case + for easy access.)
Box: inside of 130x100 mm and a height of 14 mm each.
With the box the distinction between top and bottom does not actually matter and is just there for ease of printing. The holes in the hinges are 2 mm to allow for use of 1.75mm filament as both a hinge and a way to close the box, any wire around 1.75 mm should work in place of filament as well. (the box was too large to create a print in place hinge as it went over the print bed.)
Unfortunately I did not have a new Prusament spool to fully test this model however I did create multiple test pieces using the measurements in fusion such as small hexagons to ensure the dowels actually fit. I also had access to an old Prusament spool to test that it actually spun. It worked rather well and as long as spun relatively slowly the dowels should not pop out.
Printer used: bambu lab x1c
filament used: bambu basic (red) + Sunlu pla (black)
License:
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